December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: FLT 800: From the Rumor Mill...But It Makes Sense.. (fwd)
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:15 PM 9/1/96 -0400, Simon Spero wrote: >On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Alan Horowitz wrote: > >> The Aegis ship in the Gulf wzs not in an exercise. It was in a war zone. >> >> If my memory serves, the Iranian jetliner had its squawker turned off, or >> broken. The officer in charge in the CIC had about ten seconds to decide >> if he was about to be locked-on by a missle. And no real information to > >I think it was actually a combination of a design flaw in the user >interface for the control system combined with a human error that led to >the radar officer confusing the airbus with an (F4?) a hundred miles away >that he'd previously clicked on. Isn't there just the tiniest bit of a double-standard here? If the ship was supposedly "justified" in firing on an airplane just because it _could_become_ a threat, and _could_ fire a missile at any moment, then why can't we turn this logic around and claim that an Iranian aircraft could view an Aegis as a ship which "could become a threat" and "could fire a missile at any moment." Generally, I'm not sympathetic to the Iranians; far from it. But I can smell hypocrisy a mile away and the US military's "logic" in this area is unbelievable. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Free Speech and List Topics
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:19 AM 9/2/96, Mark M. wrote: >On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, James Seng wrote: >> ps: Sorry for the off-topic discussion. > >Cpunks is certainly not the best place to be discussing free speech. However, >the link between free speech and the spread of cryptographic technology is too >close to completely overlook. I think it is as good a place as any to discuss free speech. The issues surrounding Net censorship, Singapore, the CDA, Germany, the shutdown of Julf's server, etc., are central to our concerns. And, in fact, it is "cypherpunk technology" which will have a more lasting effect on these issues than mere talking about it in some "free speech discussion group" will have. More disturbing to me recently has been the steady increase in subscribers to this list who don't seem to value free speech very highly, who write of their own nation's censorship as valiant efforts to protect citizen-units from foreign devils, and, even more shockingly, from supposed defenders of electronic freedom who are now talking about the need for limits on anonymity. With friends like those... --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Your password for BARRON'S Online
by webmaster＠online.barrons.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Silenced Machine Guns Are Safer Than TWA
by qut＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

! "James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com>, writes: ! >I heard on talk.politics.guns somebody say that in Sweden they ! >had banned knives with a sharp point at the end, and were going ! >to ban sharp knives altogether. I think he was just engaging in ! >hyperbole, that he really meant that gun control in Sweden was ! >unreasonably strict, but on reflection I am not sure. ! > ! ! In a survey conducted in Sweden a few years ago, 50% of Swedish ! households had access to guns (generally military service weapons ! and sporting shotguns). Guns are, however, licensed and regulated, ! and seldom used in crimes. Licenses for "personal protection" are ! almost unobtainable. At least one military officer was court martialed ! when his service revolver was stolen from his automobile. ! ! The most significant "mass murderer" crimes in Sweden (one last ! year and one in the 1970's) were caused by people who used their ! legally-obtained military weapons. Hundreds of thousands of private American citizens legally own machine guns, silencers, live hand grenades, .75 caliber machine guns, etc. Perhaps 40% or so of the populace lives in an area without significantly higher regulations concerning such than the federal, which is not that bad. There is no federal law making silenced machine guns substantially more difficult to purchase and shoot than ordinary handguns. The feds certainly don't require training or any other similar requirement. Contrary to popular fiction, ALL firearms have been permanently registered since the 1968 Gun Control Act. The media monopoly lies when they say the contrary. How many firearm crimes were committed by these hundreds of thousands of ordinary untrained destructive weapon owners with their destructive weapons in the entire span of 1980-1996? *NONE*! THEREFORE, everyone in Sweden and America should be allowed to own silenced machine guns without any greater than the usual restrictions. BTW, I muse that the issue of guns, drugs and censorship make an excellent litmus test for libertarians: either you support the legalization of, all of, or your a fake.

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http://infinity.nus.sg/cypherpunks/
by qut＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Someone keeps asking for the filtered cypherpunks archive: http://infinity.nus.sg/cypherpunks/ It's filtered with hypermail and is lynx friendly. It's easiest to read by choosing the link to filter by subject.

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Re: WARNING vIRuS!
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 23:41:58 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: >> There is a new and VERY dangerous virus called the HAZ-MAT virus! >This is the clueless kind of crap I expect pitched to AOL users and upper >level management. >The only way that you could obtain the effects described above is with Black >Magic and/or Voodoo. (And not even then.) > >I remember a similar hoax going around about 3-4 years ago about viruses in >image files. I guess nothing on the net is ever forgotten entirely. >Especially the urban legends and bullshit. You ever notice how that is? People *never* remember things like "You have to execute something to get a virus". They *always* remember something like "Good Times." Reminds me of the guy who said you could stick all sorts of sensitive data in README.TXT because you can be sure nobody will look in there. - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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PGPCrack for DOS
by Mark M. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: hackers texts
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 01 Sep 1996 08:51:36 EDT, patrick b cummings wrote: >If any of you hackers out their have wrote any texts for beginning >hackers or know of any please send them to me at patrickc(a)juno.com You know, I think his mail server has a 36 hour delay on incoming messages. Either that or he's Roadkill on the Information Superhighway // \\ // \\ ______________ // \\ | | // \\ | Information | // \\ | Superhighway | // ____ \\ | 56MB/s | // /____\ \\ |______________| // |==__==| \\ | | // ~||~~||~ \\ | | // ' \\ | | // // \\ | | // \\ | | // / / \\ | | // \\ | | // /// \\ | | // \\ | | // . ,& \\ | | // . `;//* IS HERE \\ // . `|/^\@'< ' . | \\ // `_/x@=%$P/,', <---/ \\ // >@#)*?o$%( , \\ // \.X#j~\===B \\ / \\ : The Clue truck got him... [In case you haven't noticed yet, this looks best with a non-proportional font] - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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Re: Moscowchannel.com hack
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:09:32 -0500 (CDT), Igor Chudov @ home wrote: >> > Not really crypto, but related to the DOJ hack in a way. >> > >> > Moscow Channel is a pretty slick, Russian news/commentary >>page. Their Web >> > site was hacked and altered by someone who didn't seem to >>like Russians all >> > Just a matter of time before some builds a dedicated Satan >>type tool that >> > scans for HTTP server holes or messed up file permissions >>to make locating >> > potential victims easy. >> Write your web site to a CD-ROM and hard-code the base >>directory into the >> webserver. > >A hacker who has root can forcibly unmount the cdrom and mount >another >directory on that node. Not a good solution. Hack your system kernel to only allow mounting read-only media to that point. Most hackers wouldn't try "hot-patching" the system kernel. The ones that can probably have better things to do than hack your page. - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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Re: Bob Dole on Drugs
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:33:02 -0500 (CDT), Igor Chudov @ home wrote: >http://allpolitics.com/news/9608/31/radio.addresses/ > >... snip ... > > Dole, who returned to Washington for Labor Day > weekend, also pledged to use the White House as a > bully pulpit to promote the "moral message" > against drugs and to criticize what he called the > entertainment industry's glamorization of drug use. > > On Sunday, he is to address the convention of the > National Guard Association of the United States > during which he's expected to propose that the > military be enlisted to assist in a renewed war on > drugs. This actually makes a lot of sense; if you've decided on an all-out war on drugs, doing it right is *much* better than some sort of weenie effort like we've got. I liked Robert Heinlein on immigration "If we're going to stop immigration build a Berlin style wall complete with alligators in the moat. Otherwise give up the pretense; nothing is more expensive or less useful than a wall that isn't." (very loosely paraphrased) - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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